Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea: The Onoda Cement FactoryThis book is a study of labor relations and the first generation of skilled workers in colonial Korea, a subject crucial to the understanding of modernization in twentieth-century Korea. Born in rural Korea, these workers confronted both the colonial experience and the modern workplace as they interacted with Japanese managers and workers. Based on the archives of the Onoda Cement Factory and interviews with surviving workers, this work analyzes the complex relationship between colonialism and modernization. |
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Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea: The Onoda Cement Factory Soon-Won Park Limited preview - 2020 |
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Andō became branch factory Bureau Cement Factory cement industry Ch'onnaeri changes chōsa Chōsen sōtokufu Choson colonial Korea colonial labor colonial modernity colonial period colonial workers common school Communist construction daily wage developed economic employees engineers factory workers Hamkyŏng Han'guk Hori Hungnam Hwanghae increased Japa Japan jōkyō kabushiki kaisha 1981 Kangdong Keijō Kokajō Komusan Korean labor Korean workers Kyongsong labor force labor market labor relations labor-management Manchuria Mandal myon mobilization National Nihon number of Korean number of workers okeru Onoda Cement Company Onoda factories Onoda semento kabushiki Onoda Sunghori P'yongyang Peace Preservation Law percent production Pujon rean recruits Red Labor regular workers rural Samch'ok factory second half semento kabushiki kaisha Seoul Seoul National University Sinŭiju skilled workers social South Korea South P'yongan South P'yongan province studies Sungho Sunghori factory Sunghori plant Table textile tion Tokyo Tongyang Cement urban Wonsan workforce